CV - Department of Italian

TEODOLINDA BAROLINI
Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian
Department of Italian
510 Hamilton Hall
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027
(212) 854-2312
[email protected]
http://italian.columbia.edu/people/profile/1478
EDUCATION
 Columbia University, 1972-1978
o M.A. Italian, 1973
o Ph.D. Italian and Comparative Literature, 1978
 Sarah Lawrence College, 1968-1972
o B.A. Classics, 1972
 St. Stephen’s School, Rome, Italy, 1965-1968
EMPLOYMENT
 Columbia University, Department of Italian
o Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor, 1999—
o Professor, 1992-1999; Chair, 1992-2004; 2011-2014
o Acting Chair, 2007-2008
o Director of Graduate Studies, 1992-2000, 2003—
 New York University, Department of Italian Studies
o Professor, 1989-1992
o Associate Professor, 1983-1989
o Director of Graduate Studies, 1983-1992
 University of California, Berkeley, Department of Italian
o Assistant Professor, 1978-1983
 Columbia University, Department of Italian
o Preceptor and Teaching Assistant, 1973-1976
Visiting Positions
 William and Katherine Devers Visiting Professor of Dante Studies,
University of Notre Dame, spring 2000
 Visiting Professor, Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, The Johns
Hopkins University, spring 1989
 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies,
Brown University, fall 1985
HONORS AND AWARDS
 Celebration of 30th Anniversary of Dante’s Poets held by former students
(11/13/14)
 MLA Scaglione Publication Award for Dante’s Lyric Poetry: Poems of Youth
and of the “Vita Nuova” (2012)
 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, 2011-2012 and 2012-2013
 American Academy in Rome Scholar in Residence, Spring 2012
 University Lecture, Columbia University, Spring 2008
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Premio Flaiano in italianistica, for Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary
Culture, Pescara, Italy, July 2007
Elected Member, American Philosophical Society, class of 2002
Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, class of 2001
Elected Fellow, Medieval Academy, class of 2000
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1998
Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, Columbia University, 1996
John Nicholas Brown Prize, Medieval Academy, for Dante’s Poets, 1988
Howard R. Marraro Prize, Modern Language Association, for Dante’s Poets,
1986
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1986
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1981
Summer Research Grants, University of California, 1980, 1981
Regents’ Junior Faculty Fellowship, University of California, summer 1979
American Association of University Women Fellowship, 1977
President’s Fellowship, Columbia University, 1977
Whiting Foundation in the Humanities Fellowship, 1976
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship, Columbia University,
1972
Sarah Lawrence College Scholarships, 1968-1972
Classics Prize, St. Stephen’s School, 1968
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Member
 American Philosophical Society
 American Academy of Arts and Sciences
 Dante Society of America
 Medieval Academy of America
 Renaissance Society of America
 American Association of Teachers of Italian
 American Boccaccio Association
 Modern Language Association
 Associazione internazionale per gli studi di lingua e letteratura italiana
(AISLLI)
Governance Positions
 Councillor, Medieval Academy of America, 2007-2010
 President, Dante Society of America, 1997-2003
 Vice President, Dante Society of America, 1983-1986, 1991-1994, 19951997
 Councillor, Dante Society of America, 1983-1986, 1991-1994, 1995-1998
 Executive Committee, Division on Medieval and Renaissance Italian
Literature, Modern Language Association, 1988-1993
Editorial/Advisory Boards
Journals
 Associate Editor, Dante Studies, 1984—
 Editorial Board, The Romanic Review, 1992—
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Advisory Board, Quaderni d’italianistica, 1998—
Advisory Board, L’Alighieri, 2002—
Advisory Board, The Italianist, 2003—
Editorial Board, Italian Culture, 2007—
Advisory Board, Dante: Rivista internazionale degli studi danteschi, 2004—
Advisory Board, California Lectura Dantis (University of California Press),
1984-1992
Advisory Board, Envoi: A Review Journal of Medieval Literature, 1984-1999
Advisory Board, Forum Italicum, 1994-1999
Editorial Board, Italica, 1994-1999
Advisory Board, PMLA, 1995-1998
Associate Editor, Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America, 19962005
Series
Historicizing Dante, Director, Fordham University Press Series, 2014—
Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Authors (Brill Series), 2006—
Figurae (Stanford University Press Series), 1992-2000
Committees and Colloquia
 Colloquium in the Humanities, NYU Italian Studies, 2005—
 Selection Committee, 1989 William Nelson Prize for the best article in
Renaissance Quarterly
 Selection Committee, Howard R. Marraro Prize, Modern Language
Association, 1990-1994
Consultant
 K. Zanussi film treatment of the Divine Comedy, 1989
Columbia University Press for Italian author series, 1990
 Digital Dante, a Web site for Dante scholarship and study developed by J.
Hogan, 1995-2000, 2012 to 2014 launch and ongoing
Listed In
 One Thousand Great Intellectuals (1st ed.)
 Contemporary Authors
 The World Who’s Who of Women (10th-11th eds.)
 The International Authors and Writers Who’s Who (12th-13th eds.)
 Who’s Who in the East (25th-30th eds.)
 Who’s Who in America (50th-63rd eds.)
 Directory of American Scholars (10th-11th eds.)
 Who’s Who in American Education (7th ed.)
 Who’s Who of American Women (25th ed.)
 Leading Professionals of the World (2009)
Manuscript Review
Princeton University Press, Oxford University Press, University of Toronto Press,
Fordham University Press, Yale University Press, Cambridge University Press,
University of California Press, SUNY Press, Medieval & Renaissance Texts &
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Studies, University of Pennsylvania Press, Romance Philology, Renaissance
Quarterly, Mediaevalia, Speculum, Allegorica, MLN, PMLA, Traditio, Dante Studies,
Romanic Review, Forum Italicum, Italica
Peer Review
Reader of applications in the field of Italian Literature or Medieval Studies for:
Guggenheim Foundation (2006-2011); American Academy in Rome (2011); Italian
Academy for Advanced Study in America (2003-2011); American Philosophical
Society (2003-2005); National Humanities Center (2005, 2007); The Canada
Council; MacArthur Foundation; Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral
Sciences; Brown University Technology Center
Tenure/Promotion Review
University of California, Irvine (1985, 1998); Hofstra University (1986); University
of California, Davis (1988); Cornell University (1988); University of Virginia (1991);
Fordham University (1992); University of California, Berkeley (1991); Stanford
University (1991); University of California, Davis (1993); University of
Pennsylvania (1993); Northwestern University (1996); University of Michigan
(1999); University of Wisconsin, Madison (2000); Notre Dame University (2000);
University of Oregon (2001); Duke University (2002); Yale University (2002);
Emory University (2003); Rutgers University (2004); Trinity College (2007);
Princeton University (2009); Vanderbilt University (2009); Ohio State University
(2009); University of Michigan (2010); Fordham University (2011); Georgetown
University (2012); University of Binghamton (2013)
Departmental Reviews
 Dept. of Italian, University of California, Berkeley (1992)
 Dept. of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania (1992)
Conference/Event Organizer
 Principal Organizer of Dante2000, an international conference sponsored by
The Dante Society of America, Columbia University’s Department of Italian,
and Columbia University’s Italian Academy of Advanced Study in America,
held at Columbia University on April 7-9, 2000
 Organizer of “Colei ch’a ben far pone l’ingegno: Conference in Honor of Joan
M. Ferrante on her 65th Birthday,” held at Columbia University, November
10, 2001
 Organizer, with Nancy Vickers, President, Bryn Mawr College, of April 2003
Annual Dante Society Meeting with Launch of Capital Campaign
 Organizer of “Petrarch 700 Years Later: Hermeneutics and Philology,” an
international conference sponsored by Columbia University’s Department of
Italian, Italian Academy for Advanced Study in America and the Istituto
Italiano di Cultura, held at Columbia University on December 10, 2004
 Organizer of “Dante and Cultural Transmission: The Commedia Between
Italy and Hungary”, presentation of Codex Italicus from Budapest,
cosponsored by Università di Verona and Columbia University’s
Department of Italian, on October 19, 2007
 Organizer of “Boccaccio Philologist and Philosopher,” an international
giornata di studio devoted to “critical philology” through the lens of
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Boccaccio, sponsored by Columbia University’s Department of Italian and
Italian Academy for Advanced Study in America, on April 29, 2011
Radio and Film
 Modern Language Association radio series What’s the Word? program #135
entitled “The Battle for the Vernacular,” producer Sally Placksin, 2003
 Premio Flaiano clip on youtube.com
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4lfPpRMEj0)
Print and Web Interviews and Newspaper Articles
 Simon Gilson, “Historicism, Philology and the Text: An Interview with
Teodolinda Barolini.” Italian Studies 63 (2008): 146-54.
 “Dante e le donne: La Commedia poema femminista” in Repubblica — 08
febbraio 2008, pagina 50, sezione: CULTURA.
 Phi Beta Kappa Interview. College of the Holy Cross, 11/8/11:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLwBYpR_qT4
Other
 Board of Trustees, St. Stephen’s School, Rome, Italy, 1996-2005
PUBLICATIONS
Books
1. Dante’s Poets: Textuality and Truth in the Comedy. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1984. Pp.xiv+312. Winner of the Marraro Prize and the
John Nicholas Brown Prize. Reprinted sections cited below.
a. Il miglior fabbro: Dante e i poeti della Commedia. Translation of
Dante’s Poet. Trans. Paolo Barlera. Torino: Bollati Boringhieri,
1993. Pp. 274.
2. The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1992. Pp. 356. Reprinted section cited below. See
http://www.readysteadybook.com/Blog.aspx?permalink=20050927000000
a. La Commedia senza Dio: Dante e la creazione di una realtà virtuale.
Translation of The Undivine Comedy. Trans. Roberta Antognini.
Milano: Feltrinelli, 2003. Pp. 381. See
http://www.feltrinellieditore.it/SchedaTesti?id_testo=1198&id_spe
clibro=1013
3. Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture. New York: Fordham
University Press, 2006. Pp. 475. Winner of the Premio Flaiano in
italianistica. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4lfPpRMEj0
a. Il secolo di Dante: Viaggio alle origini della cultura letteraria
italiana.
Translation of Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture.
Trans. Giuseppe Bernardi. Milano: Bompiani, 2012. Pp. 680.
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4. Dante, Rime giovanili e della “Vita Nuova”. Cura, saggio introduttivo e
cappelli introduttivi alle rime di Teodolinda Barolini, Note di Manuele
Gragnolati. (Dante, Lyrics of Youth and of the “Vita Nuova”. Edited,
Introduction to the volume, and Introductory Essays to the poems by
Teodolinda Barolini, Notes by Manuele Gragnolati.) Biblioteca Universale
Rizzoli (BUR). Milano: Rizzoli, 2009. Pp. 550.
a. Dante’s Lyric Poetry: Poems of Youth and of the ‘Vita Nuova’. Edited
and with commentary by Teodolinda Barolini, with original
translations of Dante’s poems by Richard Lansing. Translation of
Barolini commentary by Andrew Frisardi.
Winner of Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award of the
Modern Language Association for a Manuscript in Italian Literary
Studies, 2012.
Expanded and updated version of Rime giovanili e della ‘Vita
Nuova’.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Books Edited
1. The Dante Encyclopedia. Editor Richard Lansing. Associate Editors
Teodolinda Barolini, Joan Ferrante, Amilcare Iannucci, and Christopher
Kleinhenz. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 2000. Pp. 1006.
2. Dante for the New Millennium. Eds. Teodolinda Barolini and H. Wayne
Storey. New York: Fordham University Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii+498.
3. Medieval Constructions in Gender and Identity: Essays in Honor of Joan M.
Ferrante. Ed. Teodolinda Barolini. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies, 2005. Pp. xii+195.
4. Petrarch and the Textual Origins of Interpretation. Eds. Teodolinda Barolini
and H. Wayne Storey. Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, 31.
Leiden: Brill, 2007. Pp. xi+267.
Essays
1. “Svevo’s Theatre in the Light L’avventura di Maria.” Italica 55 (1978): 449460.
2. “Bertran de Born and Sordello: The Poetry of Politics in Dante’s Comedy.”
PMLA 94 (1979): 395-405.
3.
“The Wheel of the Decameron.” Romance Philology 36 (1983): 521- 539.
4. “Giovanni Boccaccio.” European Writers: The Middle Ages and the
Renaissance. Ed. W.T.H. Jackson. 2 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s
Sons, 1983. 2:509-534.
5. “Re-presenting What God Presented: The Arachnean Art of the Terrace of
Pride.” Dante Studies 105 (1987): 43-62.
a. “Ricreare la creazione divina: l’arte aracnea nella cornice dei superbi.”
Studi americani su Dante. Eds. G. C. Alessio and R. Hollander. Milano:
Franco Angeli, 1989. Pp. 145-164.
6. “Arachne, Argus, and St. John: Transgressive Art in Dante and
Mediaevalia 13 (1987): 207-226.
7.
Ovid.”
“Dante’s Heaven of the Sun as a Meditation on Narrative.” Lettere Italiane
40 (1988): 3-36.
8. “Detheologizing Dante: For a ‘New Formalism’ in Dante Studies.” Quaderni
d’italianistica 10.1-2 (1989): 35-53.
9.
“The Making of a Lyric Sequence: Time and Narrative in Petrarch’s Rerum
vulgarium fragmenta.” MLN 104 (1989): 1-38.
10. “True and False See-ers in Inferno 20.” Lectura Dantis: A Forum for Dante
Research and Interpretation 4 (1989): 42-54.
11. “Dante and the Troubadours: An Overview.” Tenso 5.1 (1989): 3-10.
12. “Q: Does Dante Hope for Vergil’s Salvation? A: Why Do We Care? For the
Very Reason We Should Not Ask the Question.” MLN 105 (1990): 138-144,
147-149.
13. “For the Record: The Cangrande Epistle and Various ‘American Dantisti.’”
Lectura Dantis: A Forum for Dante Research and Interpretation 6 (1990):
140-143.
14. “Narrative and Style in Lower Hell.” Annali d’Italianistica 8 (1990): 314344.
a. “Stile e narrativa nel basso inferno dantesco.” Lettere Italiane 42
(1990): 173-207.
15. “Dante and the Lyric Past.” The Cambridge Companion to Dante. Ed. R.
Jacoff. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. 14-33. 2nd ed.
2007. Pp. 14-34.
16. “‘Why Did Dante Write the Commedia?’ or The Vision Thing.” Dante Studies
111 (1993): 1-8.
17. “Le parole son femmine e i fatti son maschi: Toward a Sexual Poetics of the
Decameron (Dec. II 10).” Studi sul Boccaccio 21 (1993): 175-197.
18. “Cominciandomi dal principio infino a la fine: Forging Anti-Narrative in the
Vita Nuova.” La gloriosa donna de la mente: A Commentary on the ‘Vita
Nuova.’ Ed. V. Moleta. Firenze: Olschki, 1994. Pp. 119-140.
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19. “Minos’s Tail: The Labor of Devising Hell (Inferno 5.1-24).” Romanic Review
87 (1996): 437-454.
20. “Dante’s Ulysses: Narrative and Transgression.” Dante: Contemporary
Perspectives. Ed. A. A. Iannuncci. Major Italian Author Series. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1997. Pp. 113-132.
21. “Guittone’s Ora parrà, Dante’s Doglia mi reca, and the Commedia’s
Anatomy of Desire.” In: Seminario Dantesco Internazionale: International
Dante Seminar 1. Ed. Z. Baranski. Firenze: Le Lettere, 1997. Pp. 3-23.
22. “Dante and Cavalcanti (On Making Distinctions in Matters of Love): Inferno
5 in its Lyric Context.” Dante Studies 116 (1998): 31-63.
a. “Desire and Death, or Francesca and Guido Cavalcanti: Inferno 5
in its Lyric Context.” Bernardo Lecture Series, No. 9. (Binghamton,
NY: Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, State University of
NY at Binghamton, 2001).
23. “Dante and Francesca da Rimini: Realpolitik, Romance, Gender.” Speculum
75 (2000): 1-28.
24. “Medieval Multiculturalism and Dante’s Theology of Hell.” The Craft and the
Fury: Essays in Honor of Glauco Cambon. Ed. J. Francese. Bordighera
Press. Italiana 9 (2000): 82-102.
a. “Multiculturalismo medievale e teologia dell’inferno dantesco.”
Dante: Rivista internazionale di studi su Dante Alighieri 2 (2005): 1132.
25. “Francesca da Rimini.” The Dante Encyclopedia. New York and London:
Garland Publishing, 2000. Pp. 409-414.
26. “Hell.” The Dante Encyclopedia. New York and London: Garland
Publishing, 2000. Pp. 472-477.
27. “Lyric Poetry (Dante’s).” The Dante Encyclopedia. New York and London:
Garland Publishing, 2000. Pp. 578-582.
28. “Ulysses.” The Dante Encyclopedia. New York and London: Garland
Publishing, 2000. Pp. 842-847.
29. “Introduction.” Dante for the New Millennium. Eds. Teodolinda Barolini
and H. Wayne Storey. New York: Fordham University Press, 2003. Pp. ixxviii.
30. “Beyond (Courtly) Dualism: Thinking about Gender in Dante’s Lyrics.” In
Dante for the New Millennium. Eds. Teodolinda Barolini and H.Wayne
Storey. New York: Fordham University Press, 2003. Pp. 65-89.
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31. “Saggio di un nuovo commento alle Rime di Dante. 1. La dispietata mente
che pur mira: l’io al crocevia di memoria e disio; 2. Sonar bracchetti e
cacciatori aizzare: l’io diviso tra mondo maschile e mondo femminile; 3.
Guido, i’ vorrei che tu e Lippo ed io: l’io e l’incanto della non-differenza.”
Dante: Rivista internazionale di studi danteschi 1 (2004): 21-38.
32. “Editing Dante’s Lyrics and Italian Cultural History: Dante, Boccaccio,
Petrarca . . . Barbi, Contini, Foster-Boyde, De Robertis.” Lettere Italiane 56
(2004): 509-542.
a. “L’edizione delle Rime di Dante e la storia culturale italiana.” Le
‘Rime’ di Dante. Atti della giornata di studi (16 novembre 2007). Ed.
Paolo Grossi. Quaderni dell’Hôtel de Galliffet. Parigi: Istituto
Italiano di Cultura, 2008. Pp. 139-175.
33. “Introduction.” Medieval Constructions in Gender and Identity: Essays in
Honor of Joan M. Ferrante. Ed. Teodolinda Barolini. Tempe: Arizona
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005. Pp. 1-10.
34. “Lifting the Veil? Notes toward a Gendered History of Italian Literature.”
Medieval Constructions in Gender and Identity: Essays in Honor of Joan M.
Ferrante. Ed. Teodolinda Barolini. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies, 2005. Pp. 169-191.
35. “Sotto benda”: The Women of Dante’s Canzone Doglia mi reca in the Light of
Cecco d’Ascoli.” Dante Studies 123 (2005): 83-88.
36. “Dante Alighieri.” Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An
Encyclopedia. Ed. Margaret Schaus. New York and London:
Routledge, 2006. Pp. 190-192.
37. “Italian Literature.” Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An
Encyclopedia. Ed. Margaret Schaus. New York and London: Routledge,
2006. Pp. 482-484.
38. “Introduction.” Petrarch and the Textual Origins of Interpretation. Eds.
Teodolinda Barolini and H. Wayne Storey. Columbia Studies in the
Classical Tradition, 31. Leiden: Brill, 2007. Pp. 1-12.
39. “Petrarch at the Crossroads of Hermeneutics and Philology: Editorial
Lapses, Narrative Impositions, and Wilkins’ Doctrine of the Nine Forms of
the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta.” Petrarch and the Textual Origins of
Interpretation. Eds. Teodolinda Barolini and H. Wayne Storey. Columbia
Studies in the Classical Tradition, 31. Leiden: Brill, 2007. Pp. 21-44.
40. “Canoni Assenti: The Poet and the Canon.” Semicerchio 38 (2008/1): 5.
41. “Historicism, Philology and the Text: An Interview with Teodolinda
Barolini.” Questions posed by Simon Gilson. Italian Studies 63 (2008):
146-54.
42. “Petrarch as the Metaphysical Poet Who Is Not Dante: Metaphysical
Markers at the Beginning of the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (RVF 1-21).”
Petrarch and Dante. Eds. Zygmunt Baranski and Theodore Cachey. Notre
Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009. Pp. 195-225.
43. “The Self in the Labyrinth of Time: Rerum vulgarium fragmenta.” Petrarch:
A Critical Guide to the Complete Works. Eds. Victoria Kirkham and
Armando Maggi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. 33-62.
44. “Saggio di un commento alle Rime di Dante: i sonetti dell’episodio della
donna gentile.” In Letteratura e filologia tra Svizzera e Italia.
Studi in
onore di Guglielmo Gorni. A cura di Maria Antonietta Terzoli, Alberto Asor
Rosa, Giorgio Inglese. Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2010. Vol. 1.
Pp. 19-35.
45. “‘Only Historicize’: History, Material Culture (Food, Clothes, Books), and
the Future of Dante Studies.” Dante Studies 127 (2009): 37-54.
46. “The Essential Boccaccio, or an Accidental Ethics.” A commissioned
Afterword for the republication of the Musa-Bondanella translation of the
Decameron. New York: Signet Classics, 2010. Pp. 809-818.
47. “The Time of His Life: Petrarch’s Marginalia and Rerum vulgarium
fragmenta 23.” Textual Cultures 5.2 (2010): 1-10.
48. “A Quintilian for the 21st Century: On Fictional Truth [by Michael
Riffaterre].” Romanic Review 101 (2010): 239-241.
49. “Dante’s Sympathy for the Other, or the Non-Stereotyping Imagination:
Sexual and Racialized Others in the Commedia.” Critica del Testo 14.1
(2011): 177-204. (=Dante, oggi, vol. 1. Eds. Roberto Antonelli, Annalisa
Pandolfi, and Arianna Punzi. Roma: Viella, 2011. 3 vols.)
50. “Sociology of the Brigata: Gendered Groups in Dante, Forese, Folgore,
Boccaccio – From ‘Guido, i’ vorrei’ to Griselda.” Italian Studies 67.1 (2012):
4-22.
a. “Sociologia della brigata: il gender nel gruppo sociale da Guido, i’
vorrei a Griselda.” In Verso una storia di genere della letteratura italiana:
Percorsi critici e gender studies. A cura di Virginia Cox e Chiara Ferrari.
Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012. Pp. 33-57.
51. “The Poetic Exchanges between Dante Alighieri and His ‘Amico’ Dante da
Maiano: A Young Man Takes His Place in the World.” In “Legato con amore
in un volume": Essays in honour of John A. Scott. Eds. John J. Kinder and
Diana Glenn. Florence: Olschki, 2013. Pp. 39-61.
52. “Dante and Reality/Dante and Realism (Paradiso),” SpazioFilosofico,
numero 8 (2013): 199-208. At: www.spaziofilosofico.it
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53. “A Cavalcantian Vita Nuova: Dante’s Canzoni Lo doloroso amor che mi
conduce and E’ m’incresce di me sì duramente.” In Dantean Dialogues:
Engaging with the Legacy of Amilcare Iannucci. Ed. Maggie Kilgour and
Elena Lombardi. Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 2013. Pp. 41-65.
54. “Dan Brown and the Case of the Wrong Dante.” In: Secrets of Inferno: In the
Footsteps of Dante and Dan Brown. By Dan Burstein and Arne de Keijzer.
Stamford, Ct: The Story Plant, 2013. Pp. 39-47.
55. “Toward a Dantean Theology of Eros: From Dante’s Lyrics to the Paradiso.”
In Discourse Boundary Creation: A Festschrift in Honor of Paolo Valesio on
his 70th Birthday. Ed. Peter Carravetta. New York: Bordighera Press, 2013.
Pp. 1-18.
56. “Aristotle’s Mezzo, Courtly Misura, and Dante’s Canzone Le dolci rime:
Humanism, Ethics, and Social Anxiety.” In Dante and the Greeks. Ed. Jan
Ziolkowski. Washington: Dunbarton Oaks, 2014. Pp. 163-79.
57. “The Case of the Lost Original Ending of Dante’s Vita Nuova: More Notes
Toward a Critical Philology.” Medioevo letterario d’Italia 11 (2014).
58. “The Marquis of Saluzzo, or the Griselda Story Before It Was Hijacked:
Calculating Matrimonial Odds in Decameron 10.10.” Mediaevalia 34 (2014).
Special Issue: "Boccaccio at 700".
59. “From Boccaccio’s canzoni distese to Dante’s libro delle canzoni: Convivio,
Rime, and the Practice of Critical Philology.” Acts of Boccaccio and Philology
Conference Columbia 2011.
60. “Boccaccio’s Philosophy of Consolation: The Place of the Other in Life’s
Transactions.” Acts of the American Boccaccio Association Conference
2013.
Books In Progress
1. A commentary to Dante’s lyrics of maturity, commissioned by Rizzoli for the
Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli series (BUR): Rime della maturità dalla stagione
fiorentina all’esilio.
2. Petrarch, Metaphysical Poet: The Lyric Sequence as the Syllables of Time.
3. Passion’s Imprint: The Italian Lyric from Giacomo to Dante.
4. Mensola: Boccaccio and Feminism.
Reprints
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1. “Autocitation and Autobiography.” Excerpt from Dante’s Poets. Rpt.
Modern Critical Views: Dante. Ed. H. Bloom. New York: Chelsea House,
1986. Pp. 167-177.
2. “Casella’s Song.” Excerpt from Dante’s Poets. Rpt. Modern Critical
Interpretations: Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy.’ Ed. H. Bloom. New York: Chelsea
House, 1987. Pp. 151-158.
3. “Canto XX.” Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’: Introductory Readings. I: ‘Inferno’
[Lectura Dantis 6: supplement, spring 1990]. Ed. T. Wlassics. Pp. 262-274.
4. “The Wheel of the Decameron.” Rpt. Short Story Criticism, Vol. 10. Detroit:
Gale Research, 1992. Pp. 221-228.
5. “Bertran de Born and Sordello: The Poetry of Politics in Dante’s Comedy.”
Excerpt from Dante’s Poets, orig. PMLA. Rpt. Dante. Ed. J. Tambling.
Longman Critical Readers Series. London and New York: Addison Wesley
Longman, 1999. Pp. 85-103.
6. “Bertran de Born and Sordello: The Poetry of Politics in Dante’s Comedy.”
Excerpt from Dante’s Poets, orig. PMLA. Rpt. Poetry Criticism. Detroit: Gale
Research, forthcoming.
7. “Canto XX: True and False See-ers.” Lectura Dantis: ‘Inferno.’ Eds. A.
Mandelbaum, A. Oldcorn, C. Ross. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1998. Pp. 275-286.
8. “Guittone’s Ora parrà, Dante’s Doglia mi reca, and the Commedia’s Anatomy
of Desire.” Rpt. Italian Quarterly 37 (2000): 33-49.
9. Desire and Death, or Francesca and Guido Cavalcanti: Inferno 5 in its Lyric
Context. Bernardo Lecture Series, No. 9. Center for Medieval &
Renaissance Studies. Binghamton, N.Y.: State University of New York at
Binghamton, 2001.
10. “Autocitation and Autobiography.” Excerpt from Dante’s Poets. Rpt. Dante:
The Critical Complex. 8 volumes. Ed. Richard Lansing. New York and
London: Routledge, 2003. Vol. 1. Dante and Beatrice: The Poet’s Life and
the Invention of Poetry. Pp. 217-254.
11. “Vergil: ‘Poeta fui’”. Excerpt from Dante’s Poets. Rpt. Dante: The Critical
Complex. Vol. 2. Dante and Classical Antiquity: The Epic Tradition. Pp.
247-302.
12. “Detheologizing Dante: Realism, Reception, and the Resources of Narrative.”
Excerpt from The Undivine Comedy. Rpt. Dante: The Critical Complex. Vol.
6. Dante and Critical Theory. Pp. 79-102.
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13. “Dante and Francesca da Rimini: Realpolitik, Romance, Gender.” Rpt. from
Speculum. Dante: The Critical Complex. Vol. 7. Dante and Interpretation.
Pp. 89-116.
14. “Statius: ‘Per te poeta fui’”. Excerpt from Dante’s Poets. Rpt. Dante: The
Critical Complex. Vol. 7. Dante and Interpretation. Pp. 278-291.
REVIEWS AND MISCELLANEA
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Romance Philology 34 (1981): 355-356.
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Romance Philology 34 (1981): *361-*363.
5. E.H. Wilkins. Studies on Petrarch and Boccaccio. Renaissance Quarterly 34
(1981): 226-227.
6. R. Kirkpatrick. Dante’s ‘Paradiso’ and the Limitations of Modern Criticism.
Romance Philology 35 (1981): 409-413.
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214-216.
8. J. Mazzaro. The Figure of Dante: An Essay on the ‘Vita Nuova.’
Renaissance Quarterly 36 (1983): 75-77.
9. M. Picone. ‘Vita Nuova’ e tradizione romanza. Romance Philology 37 (1984):
382-384.
10. K. Foster and P. Boyde, eds. Cambridge Readings in Dante’s ‘Comedy.’
Speculum 59 (1984): 233-234.
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12. M. Waller. Petrarch’s Poetics and Literary History. Romance Philology 39
(1985): 135-136.
13. A. Cassell. Dante’s Fearful Art of Justice. Renaissance Quarterly 38 (1985):
705-708.
14. P. Armour. The Door of Purgatory. Italica 63 (1986): 290-291.
15. U. Limentani. Dante’s ‘Comedy’: Introductory Readings of Selected Cantos.
Speculum 63 (1988): 191-192.
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16. P. Dronke. Dante and Medieval Latin Traditions. Renaissance Quarterly 41
(1988): 293-294.
17. P. Boyde. Dante Philomythes and Philosopher. Romance Philology 42
(1988): 234-236.
18. Necrology of Thomas Goddard Bergin, with Nathaniel Smith. Romance
Philology 42 (1989): 404-407.
19. J. Tambling. Dante and Difference: Writing in the ‘Commedia.’ Renaissance
Quarterly 42 (1989): 537-540.
20. R. Kirkpatrick. Dante’s ‘Inferno’: Difficulty and Dead Poetry. Comparative
Literature 43 (1991): 190-192.
21. A. Morgan. Dante and the Medieval Other World. Speculum 67 (1992): 728729.
22. R. Durling and R. Martinez. Time and the Crystal: Studies in Dante’s ‘rime
petrose.’ Comparative Literature 46 (1994): 104-106.
23. M. O. Boyle. Petrarch’s Genius: Pentimento and Prophecy. Renaissance
Quarterly 47 (1994): 406-409.
24. “Remembering Joseph Anthony Mazzeo.” Dante Studies 116 (1998 [but
2000]): 17-19.
25. “Remembering Charles T. Davis.” Dante Studies 116 (1998 [but 2000]): 1415.
26. “In Memoriam Vittore Branca.” Speculum 81 (2006): 978-981.
PAPERS
1978
Symposium on the Middle Ages, Columbia University: “Lyric and Epic Precursors
in the Comedy”
1979
MLA Convention, San Francisco: “Revisionism in the Comedy
1980
Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, University of California, Berkeley:
“The Wheel of the Decameron”
1982
Seminar on the Humanities, Columbia University: “Reading Dante”
New England Inter-University Seminar on Italian Studies, Brown University:
“The Wheel of the Decameron”
Seminar of the Renaissance, Columbia University: “The Wheel of the Decameron”
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Dante Society of America, Annual Meeting, Harvard University: “Autocitation
and Autobiography”
Eighth California Convocation on Romance Philology, University of California,
Davis: “Comedìa Redefined”
1983
Committee on Medieval Studies, University of California, Berkeley: “Comedìa
Redefined”
MLA Convention, New York: “Comedìa Redefined”
1984
AAUPI Convention, Indiana University: “Confrontations with Narrativity in
Petrarch’s Canzoniere”
Istituto Italiano di Cultura, New York City: “Paradiso: Dante’s and
Mandelbaum’s”
1985
Center for International Scholarly Exchange, Columbia University: “Paradiso 33”
Dartmouth Dante Summer Institute: “Re-presenting What God Presented:
Misrepresentation in Hell”; “Re-presenting What God Presented: Representation
in Purgatory”
Seminar on the Renaissance, Columbia University: “Killing Time: Encounters
with Narrativity in Petrarch’s Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta”
1986
Committee on Italian Studies, Princeton University: “Killing Time: Encounters
with Narrativity in Petrarch’s Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta”
Center for International Scholarly Exchange, Columbia University: “Convivio
dantesco: The Heaven of the Sun”
MLA Convention, New York: “Teaching Dante”
1987
The Helen Merrell Lynd Colloquium, Sarah Lawrence College: “Telling the Stories
of Francis and Dominic: Problems of Representation in the Paradiso”
Medieval Academy of America, Annual Meeting, University of Toronto: “Representing What God Presented: The Arachnean Art of Dante’s Terrace of Pride”
Dante and Ovid Symposium, Barnard College: “Arachne, Argus, and St. John:
Transgressive Art in Dante and Ovid”
MLA Convention, San Francisco: “Narrative Interludes in Petrarch’s Lyric
Sequence: Canzoni 70-73 and 125-129”
1988
Dante Symposium, SUNY Stony Brook: “New Critical Approaches to the Comedy”
Dante Society of America, Annual Meeting, Harvard University: “Detheologizing
Dante”
Lecture Series in Honor of Glauco Cambon, University of Connecticut, Storrs:
“Re-presenting what God Presented: The Arachnean Art of the Terrace of Pride”
Lectura Dantis Series, University of Virginia: “True and False See-ers in Inferno
20”
MLA Convention, New Orleans: “Dante and the Troubadours”
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1989
The Johns Hopkins University: “Detheologizing Dante: For a ‘New Formalism’ in
Dante Studies”
Vergil Symposium, University of Pennsylvania: “Vergil’s Salvation and the Plot of
the Commedia”
1990
Sarah Lawrence College: “Detheologizing Dante: Narrative Perspectives on the
Divine Comedy”
American Association of Italian Studies, University of Virginia: “Periodization and
Postmodernism in the Italian Renaissance”
Dante Society of America, Annual Meeting, Harvard University: Panel on the
present and future of Dante studies
1991
Columbia University: “Detheologizing Dante and the Problems of Paradise”
Columbia University, Medieval and Renaissance Symposium: “Detheologizing
Dante”
Medieval Academy of America, Annual Meeting, Princeton University: Chair,
Dante Session
Conference on the Italian Trecento, Northwestern University: “The Mimesis of
Time in Dante’s Paradiso”
Società Dante Alighieri, Venezia: “Dante deteologizzato e i problemi del Paradiso”
“Memoria” Symposium, New York University: “On Dante and Memory”
MLA Convention, San Francisco: “Dante the Transgressor”
MLA Convention, San Francisco: Chair of two Dante sessions
1992
MLA Convention, New York: “‘Le parole son donne e i fatti son maschi’:
Decameron 2.10”
Columbia University, Literature Humanities Seminar: “Detheologizing Dante”
Istituto Italiano di Cultura, New York City: Presentation of The Undivine
‘Comedy’
1993
Manhattan College: “‘Words They Are Women and Deeds They Are Men’: Toward
a Sexual Poetics of the Decameron”
Dante Society of America, Annual Meeting, Harvard University: “Why Did Dante
Write the Comedy?”
Istituto Italiano di Cultura, New York City: Panel on Ovid’s Metamorphoses in
honor of Mandelbaum’s translation
1994
Harvard University: “Forging Anti-Narrative in Dante’s Vita Nuova”
Istituto Italiano di Cultura, New York City: “Dante italiano, Dante americano”
International Dante Seminar, Princeton University: “Guittone’s Ora parrà,
Dante’s Doglia mi reca, and the Commedia’s Anatomy of Desire”
1995
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Columbia University, Literature Humanities Seminar: “Inferno 10”
Columbia University, Moderator, “Rethinking Italian Resistance”
Columbia University, Lifelong Learners, “The Divine Comedy”
1996
Columbia University, Medieval and Renaissance Symposium: “Minos’s Tail”
Columbia University, Dean’s Day: “The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante”
Columbia University, Medieval Studies University Seminar: “Francesca and
Guido Cavalcanti: Inferno 5 and its Lyric Context”
MLA Convention, Washington, Annual Address of the Dante Society: “Francesca
and Guido Cavalcanti: Inferno 5 and its Lyric Context”
1997
University of Wisconsin, Madison: “Dante, Love and Death: Inferno 5 and its
Lyric Context”
Annual Bernardo Lecture, CEMERS, SUNY Binghampton: “Dante, Love and
Death: Inferno 5 and its Lyric Context”
CUNY Graduate Center: “Francesca and Guido Cavalcanti: Inferno 5 and its
Lyric Context”
Vassar College: “Dante, Love and Death: Inferno 5 and its Lyric Context”
1998
Yale University, First Annual Dante Lecture: “Francesca da Rimini: Realpolitik,
Romance, Gender”
Institute for Italian Culture, New York: Introduction to G. A. Scartazzini, Scritti
danteschi
Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University: “Francesca da
Rimini: Realpolitik, Romance, Gender”
1999
Columbia University, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference: “Changes
and Current Trends in Medieval Studies”
Rutgers University, Dept. of Italian: “The Lyrics of the Convivio”
2000
First Collegiate Colloquium, The Collegiate School: “Dante and the Question of
Human Desiring”
Swarthmore College, Mary Albertson Lecture in Medieval Studies: “Medieval
Multiculturalism and Dante’s Theology of Hell”
Notre Dame University, Devers Lecture: “Desire and Death: Inferno 5 in its Lyric
Context”
“Dante2000,” International Conference sponsored by Dante Society of America
and Italian Academy for Advanced Study at Columbia University: “Beyond
Dualism: Thinking About Gender in Dante’s Lyrics”
American Association of Italian Studies, New York: “Tribute to Allen
Mandelbaum”
Phi Beta Kappa Address, Columbia University: “The Path of Life”
Feminist Interventions Lecture Series, Institute for Research on Women and
Gender, Columbia University: “Beyond (Courtly) Dualism: Thinking about
Gender in Dante’s Lyrics”
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Eleventh Annual Medieval Guild Conference, Columbia University: Panel on
Methodology of Textual Exchanges: “Medieval Textualities”
Guido Cavalcanti: An International Symposium, New York University:
“Cavalcanti the Icon”
2001
American Association for Italian Studies, University of Pennsylvania: “Editing
Dante’s Rime: Reflections on a Strand of Italian Cultural History”
Conference “Stylistics, Poetics, Semiotics: The Contribution of Michael
Riffaterre,” Columbia University: “Riffaterre: A Quintillian for the 21st Century”
Conference Colei ch’a ben far pone l’ingegno, Conference in honor of Joan
Ferrante, Columbia University: “Notes toward a Gendered History of Early Italian
Literature”
2002
The Johns Hopkins University: “Dante’s Vergil”
Medieval Academy of America, Annual Meeting, New York: “Editing Dante’s
Rime: Reflections on a Strand of Italian Cultural History”
Inaugural Traverso Lecture, SUNY New Paltz: “Toward a Gendered History of
Italian Literature”
2003
Literature Humanities, Columbia University: “Dante’s Vergil”
2004
Literature Humanities, Columbia University: “Dante through Tolkien”
Literature Humanities, Barnard College: Introduction to Inferno
University of Pennsylvania Petrarch Conference: “Rerum vulgarium fragmenta:
Quid est?”
Collegiate School: “The End of the Commedia”
Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Columbia University: “Paul Oskar
Kristeller: His Library and Letters”
Columbia University Alumni Club of Bergen/Passaic: “Dante and the World
Today”
Yale University Petrarch Conference: “Petrarch, Metaphysical Poet”
Vassar College Petrarch Conference: “The Metaphysical Dance of the Rerum
vulgarium fragmenta”
Columbia University Petrarch Conference: “Petrarch at the Crossroads of
Hermeneutics and Philology”
2005
AATI, Washington: “Philology versus Interpretation? The Case of the Vita
N(u)ova”
New York University: “Reading Dante’s Lyrics: Philology and Interpretation”
2006
Michael Riffaterre Memorial Service, Remarks
Canoni Assenti, Opening Remarks on Italian Canonicity
Italian Academy Lecture Series: “Inferno 31-33”
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Columbia University, Medieval Seminar: “Dante and the Origins of Italian
Literary Culture”
2007
University of Pennsylvania: “Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture”
Fordham University Press Centennial Conference: “Dante and the Theology of
Eros”
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Conference in Honor of Chris Kleinhenz:
“Dante and the Future of Dante Studies”
New York University, Grad Student Conference on Lack in Italian Literature,
Keynote: “A Semantics of Lack, a Poetics of Entropy”
University of Pennsylvania, Conference Italian Literature between Philology and
Theory: “Toward an ‘Existential’ Philology: A Return to the Crossroads of
Hermeneutics and Philology”
2008
Literature Humanities, Columbia University: “Dante”
Italian Academy Lecture Series: “Petrarch’s Canzoniere, from Codex to Modern
Edition”
New York University, Conference Towards a Gendered History of Italian
Literature, Keynote Address: “Toward a Gendered History of Italian Literature:
The Sociology of the Brigata, Gendered Groups from Guido, i’ vorrei to Griselda”
American University, Spring Lecture Series: “Dante: Multiplicities of History,
Identities of Belief”
Columbia University, University Lecture: “Dante: Multiplicities of History,
Identities of Belief”
Istituto Italiano di Cultura, New York: “Dante’s Sympathy for the Other or the
Non-Stereotyping Imagination: Racial and Sexualized Others in the Commedia”
Med-Ren Conference, Barnard College, The Shape of Time: “The Time of his Life:
Petrarch’s Marginalia and Rvf 23”
2009
Literature Humanities, Columbia University: “Dante”
Alumni Outreach, Columbia University, Café Humanities: “Sexual Morality and
Dante’s Divine Comedy”
AAIS, Keynote Address: “Dante’s Sympathy for the Other or the NonStereotyping Imagination: Racial and Sexualized Others in the Commedia”
2010
Medieval Academy Meeting, New Haven, ”The Poetry of Theology and the
Theology of Poetry: From Dante’s Lyrics to the Paradiso”, 3/18/10
Dangerous Pedagogy Conference, Italian Academy, “Global Dante: Dangerous
Pedagogue”, 4/16/10
Participant in Panel on “Dante and Islam” at John Jay College, Second Biennial
Literature and Law Conference, 4/16/10
Valesio Festscrift Conference, “The Poetry of Theology and the Theology of
Poetry: From Dante’s Lyrics to the Paradiso”, Stony Brook in New York, 4/23/10
Antonio Barolini Centennial Conference, “Historical Witness in the Resistance
Novels of Antonio Barolini,” Columbia University, 4/30/10
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Congresso Centenario Antonio Barolini, “La testimonianza storica nei romanzi
della resistenza di Antonio Barolini: Le notti della paura e La memoria di
Stefano”, Accademia Olimpica, Vicenza, 5/29/10
Dante and the Greeks, Dumbarton Oaks, “Aristotle’s Mezzo, Courtly Misura, and
Dante’s Canzone Le dolci rime: Humanism, Ethics, and Social Status,” 10/1/10
Bard College, First-Year Seminar Lecture, “Dante’s Sympathy for the Other,”
11/1/10
2011
Boccaccio Philologist and Philosopher Conference, Columbia U., “From
Boccaccio’s Canzoni distese to Il libro delle canzoni: the Practice of Wishful
Philology (Intellectual Incontinence)”, 4/29/11
Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, Ursinus College, “Dante’s Sympathy for the Other, or
the Non-Stereotyping Imagination: Sexual and Racialized Others in the
Commedia,” 10/26/11
Italian Academy Lecture, “Decameron Day 6: The Triumph of the Word,”
11/1/11
Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, College of the Holy Cross, “Dante’s Sympathy for the
Other, or the Non-Stereotyping Imagination: Sexual and Racialized Others in the
Commedia,” 11/7/11
2012
Literature Humanities Lecture, “Teaching the Inferno,” 2/8/12
Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, Trinity College, “Dante’s Sympathy for the Other, or the
Non-Stereotyping Imagination: Sexual and Racialized Others in the Commedia,”
2/20/12
Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, Washington & Jefferson College, “Dante’s Sympathy for
the Other, or the Non-Stereotyping Imagination: Sexual and Racialized Others in
the Commedia,” 3/1/12
American Academy in Rome, Scholar in Residence Lecture, “Dante’s Sympathy
for the Other,” 4/12/12
Sapienza—Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Studi Europei, Americani e
Interculturali, “Dante e l’altro”, 4/19/12
Columbia College Reunion Weekend, “The Divine Comedy Through Images”,
6/1/12
Sarah Lawrence College 35th Reunion Weekend, “Multi-Genre Reading: Class of
‘72”, 6/2/12
American Academy of Rome Friends of the Library Lecture, “Dante’s Sympathy
for the Other,” 11/15/12
2013
Feminist to the Core Lecture Series, Institute for Research on Women and
Gender, Columbia U., “Sexuality and Gender in Dante’s Commedia”, 2/18/13
Boccaccio at 700 Conference, Binghamton University. ”The Marquis of Saluzzo,
or the Griselda Tale Before It Was Hijacked,” 4/26/13
American Boccaccio Association, Keynote Speech at Centennial Conference, “A
Philosophy of Consolation: The Place of the Other in Life’s Transactions,”
10/5/13
2014
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CUNY Graduate Center, “The Marquis of Saluzzo, or the Griselda Story Before it
Was Hijacked”
UNIVERSITY TEACHING AND SERVICE
Graduate and Undergraduate Courses
 Introduction to Italian Literature
 Dante and His World: interdisciplinary course with outside lecturers (only
at NYU)
 Divina Commedia I and II: year-long course, meets for twice the normal
amount of course time in order to read entire Commedia in one year,
offered every other year. Papers from this course and my more advanced
Dante course, “Studies in Dante,” have won the Dante Society of
America’s graduate student prize in 1989 (B. Dick), 1990 (S. Benfell),
1991 (M. Refling), 1993 (T. Gittes), 2001 (M. Eisner), 2005 (Z. Mackin),
2007 (D. Bolognesi, Honorable Mention), 2011 (J. Van Peteghem), as well
as the undergraduate prize in 1991 (A. Imus) and 2002 (M. Escolar).
 Studies in Dante: variable content seminar, e.g. “Dante’s Minor Works”
(1986), “Dante and the Classics” (1994), “Conceptualizations of Hell,
Purgatory, and Paradise” (1996), “Dante’s Lyrics” (2000); “The
Correspondence Sonnets and Construction of Masculinity” (2010)
 The Medieval Italian Lyric: from the Scuola Siciliana to Dante
 Petrarch’s Canzoniere
 Boccaccio’s Decameron
Sponsored Dissertations
1. Eugenio Giusti, “Dall’amore alla comprensione: il viaggio ideologico di
Giovanni Boccaccio dalla Caccia di Diana al Decameron” (NYU, 1991)
2. Bradley Dick, “Jacopone da Todi and the Poetics of Franciscan Spirituality”
(NYU, 1993)
3. Miriam Ruthenberg, “The Revenge of the Text: The Real-Ideal Relationship
between Giovanni Sercambi’s Croniche and Novelliere” (NYU, 1993)
4. V. Stanley Benfell, “God’s Poets: Dante, Milton, and the Bible” (NYU, 1994)
5. Christian Moevs, “The Metaphysics of the Primo Mobile: Love, Mind, and
Matter in Dante’s Comedy” (Columbia, 1994)
6. Patrizia Palumbo, “Gender Difference in the Franciscan Spirituality of
Angela of Foligno and Jacopone of Todi” (Columbia, 1996)
7. Mary Refling, “On Dante’s Hendecasyllable: Italian Metrical Theory 12981998” (Columbia, 1998)
8. Manuele Gragnolati, “Identity, Pain, and Resurrection: Body and Soul in
Bonvesin da la Riva’s Book of the Three Scriptures and Dante’s Commedia”
(Columbia, 1999)
9. Tobias Gittes, “In Fortune’s Privates: Boccaccio’s Anatomy of Temporal
Beatitude” (Columbia, 2000)
10. Martin Eisner, “Boccaccio Between Dante and Petrarch: The Chigiano
Codex, Terza Rima Trilogy, and the Shaping of Italian Literary History”
(Columbia, 2005)
11. Kristina Marie Olson, “The Afterlife of Dante’s Commedia in Boccaccio’s
Decameron and Esposizioni” (Columbia, 2006)
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12. Carin McLain, “Prose and Poetry and the Making of Beatrice” (Columbia,
2007)
13. Daniela Castelli, “Il Primo Amore agli inferi: Per una rilettura
‘misericordiosa’ della giustizia escatologica dantesca” (Columbia, 2008)
14. Diana Silverman, “The Life of Cunizza da Romano: A Study of Marriage and
Violence in Dante’s Italy” (Columbia, 2008)
15. Marco Praderio, “Dante’s Cato in the Divine Comedy: The Stoic, AntiUlyssean Hero of Antiquity and Not Augustine’s Villain” (Columbia, 2009)
16. Vlad Vintila, “After Iphis: Ovidian Non-Normative Sexuality in Dante and
Ariosto” (Columbia, 2010)
17. Kristen Renner Swann, “Historicizing Maternity in Boccaccio's Ninfale
fiesolano and Decameron” (Columbia, 2011)
18. Davide Bolognesi, “Dante and the Friars Minor: Aesthetics of the
Apocalypse” (Columbia, 2012)
19. Lynn MacKenzie, “Dante’s Manhoods: Authorial Masculinities Before the
Commedia” (Columbia, 2012)
20. Julie Van Peteghem, “Italian Readers of Ovid: From the Origins to Dante”
(Columbia, 2013)
21. Zane Mackin, “Dante Praedicator: Sermons and Preaching Culture in the
Commedia” (Columbia, 2013)
22. Akash Kumar, “Sì come dice lo Filosofo: Translating Philosophy and Science
in the Early Italian Lyric” (Columbia, 2013)
23. Seth Fabian, “Cecco Contra Dante: Correcting the Commedia With Applied
Astrology” (Columbia, 2014)
24. Luke Rosenau
25. Francis Hittinger, “Aristotle and the Making of Dante’s Critique of Medieval
Political Economy in Convivio and De Monarchia (1150–1321)”
26. Savannah Cooper-Ramsey
27. Humberto Ballesteros
28. Grace Delmolino
Administrative Positions, Italian Dept.
 Chair, Dept. of Italian, Columbia, 1992-2004; 2011-2014
 Acting Chair, Dept. of Italian, Columbia, 11/15-12/15 2006; 2007-2008
 Director of Graduate Studies, Dept. of Italian, Columbia, 1992-2000, 20032011
 Chair, Search Committee for Senior Modernist in Italian and Sponsor to Ad
Hoc Committee, 2009-2011
 Director of Graduate Studies, Dept. of Italian Studies, NYU, 1984-1992
 Acting Director of Italian Program, NYU, fall 1986
 Undergraduate Major Advisor, Dept. of Italian, University of California,
Berkeley, 1982-1983
Committee Work, Columbia University (other than Italian Department)
 Policy and Planning Committee of Faculty of Arts & Sciences (PPC), 20102013, inaugural member
 Chair, Policy and Planning Committee of Faculty of Arts & Sciences, 20102011, first chair
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Chair, Academic Review Committee, 2009-2010
Chair, Search Committee for Senior Modernist in Italian, 2009-2010
Ad Hoc, Chair, 2009
Space Committee, 2009-2010
Faculty Budget Group & Elders, 2009-2010
Language Committee, 2008-2009
Academic Review Committee, 2008-2010
Ad Hoc, 2008
Council of Overseers, The School at Columbia University, 2008-2013
Senior Fellow, Italian Academy for Advanced Study in America, 2007—
Ad Hoc, 2007
Faculty Athletics Committee, 2006-2009
Research Misconduct Committee, 2006-2008
Search Committee, Dept. of French, 2006-2007
GSAS Traveling Fellowship Committee, spring 2006
Executive Committee, Center for Comparative Literature and Society, 20022003
Ad Hoc (Chair), 2001
Chair, Academic Review Committee, 2000-2001
Academic Review Committee, 1998-2001
Chair, Search Committee for Director of Italian Academy, 1999-2000
Governing Board, Society of Fellow in the Humanities, 1998-2000, and
Fellows Selection Committee, 1998-1999
Tenure Review Advisory Committee, 1996-1997, 1998-1999, 1999-2000,
2004-2005
Columbia College Board of Visitors (faculty representative), 1996-1998
Ad Hoc (Chair), 1996
School of General Studies Dean Search Committee, 1996-1997
Latino Studies Search Committee, 1996-1997
Advisory Committee, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, 1996-1997
Ad Hoc (two), 1995
Transition Committee, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, 1995-1996
Chair, Executive Committee, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, spring and fall
1996; ; Vice-Chair, spring and fall 1995
Executive Committee, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, 1994-1997
Council of European Literature Departments, 1994-1996
Committee on the Structure of Arts & Sciences, spring 1994
Steering Committee of Chairs, spring 1994
Ad Hoc, 1994 (Chair)
Interdepartmental Committee on Comparative Literature, Graduate and
Undergraduate Committees, 1992-1999
Senior Fellow, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, 1992-1996
Divisional Literature Committee, 1992-1993
Search Committee, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 1992-1993
Search Committee, Dept. of French and Romance Philology, 1992-1993
Ad Hoc, 1993
Committee Work, NYU and Berkeley
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Graduate Financial Aid Committee, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, NYU, 19911993
Graduate Curriculum Committee, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, NYU, 19901992
Chair, Tenure Review Committee, Italian, NYU, fall 1990
Discipline Committee, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, NYU, 1988-1990
Chair, Salary Committee, French and Italian, NYU, spring 1989
Chair, 19th Century Search, Italian, NYU, 1987-1988
Chair, Salary Committee, French and Italian, NYU, spring 1986
Affirmative Action Committee, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, UCB, 1980-1981

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